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Weird Goose in Queens or Not a Pink-footed Goose

October 25, 2012 by Corey 6 Comments

After a Barnacle Goose was found in Brooklyn yesterday we Queens birders got jealous. Can you blame us? Anyway, you can imagine how my...

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Birding a Flock of Canada Geese

September 8, 2012 by Corey 5 Comments

Canada Geese are a nuisance. They poop everywhere, they are far too common, they take down airplanes. Birders tend to ignore them, non-birders tend...

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Finding Birds on a Workday

August 30, 2012 by Corey 12 Comments

Like many birders I am cursed with a job. Considering the economic times we live in that is probably not the most politic way...

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Red-winged Blackbird Harassing a Fish Crow

May 22, 2012 by Corey 1 Comment

While at Flushing Meadows Corona Park near my house in Queens this evening putting my new lens through its paces,* I was entertained by...

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Birding Across Queens

March 24, 2012 by Corey 8 Comments

Queens, NY, March 2010 For some reason, maybe because of the heroic effort I have made of late to get our new apartment completely...

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Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus

March 18, 2012 by Corey 21 Comments

Flushing Meadows Corona Park, March 2010 Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus is a much-maligned and persecuted creature. Like cormorants and shags the world over they...

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Caspian Terns in Queens

September 2, 2011 by Corey 3 Comments

Though they have a world-wide distribution and can be found on every continent except Antarctica, Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia is a bird that is not often spotted...

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